Lack of association between seasonality and psychopathology in psychiatric outpatients

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 187-194

  Posternak, Michael A ^a   Zimmerman, Mark ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical depression; Bulimia; Major depressive disorder; Seasonality; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BULIMIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WINTER;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; BULIMIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RHODE ISLAND; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; SEASONS; SUICIDE;

EID: 0037112497     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(02)00235-4     Document Type: Article

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